ChatGPT's New Voice Mode Will Slow Down If You Tell It To
It will also acknowledge you as you speak.
OpenAI is releasing two new voice models today called GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini the company says bring major enhancements to ChatGPT's voice functionality. You may recall the company launched Advanced Voice Mode in the summer of 2024. On release, the feature was impressive and felt like a major upgrade over legacy voice assistants like Siri and Alexa, but over time its limitations began to feel more pronounced. Specifically, Advanced Voice Mode employed what OpenAI describes as a "turn-based" voice model, which functions exactly like it sounds. The model has to wait for the user to stop speaking before it can respond. As you might imagine, this often resulted in a stilted back-and-forth. What's more, because the model used silence as its cue to start talking, it would often mistakenly interpret a brief pause as the end of a prompt or question,...
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